2015 was quite a year! Hacks and ransomware got personal. APT attacks and cybercrime-as-a service became widespread. The scary future of IoT hacking became a reality with the demonstration of self-driving car hacks. And, a new threat vector of mobile devices […]
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This month the Obama administration sent its big guns to Silicon Valley in an effort to get the computer makers to open up back doors in their systems so that law enforcement could more easily gain access to data. Tim
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Account takeovers are increasingly affecting a growing population of online user accounts due to a confluence of threats, such as weak consumer password practices, frequent mass data breaches and brute force attacks against web properties. The scope, scale and frequency
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It is more apparent with each passing year that there is simply no way to ensure a PC or mobile device can’t be compromised. Rather than focusing on the Quixotic goal of making devices invulnerable, you should instead ensure that
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As most families come down off of the exhilaration of Christmas and New Year’s and pack up the holiday decorations for another year, it’s important not to let your guard down when it comes to security. The bad guys still
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There are many things that we take for granted today that were once thought impossible: flying in airplanes, traveling to outer space, running a mile in under 4 minutes, etc. The thing is, none of those things were ever truly
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You’ve probably heard about the serious security problems flowing from email phishing scams. As we find ourselves embedded in the Christmas season, security teams around the globe are now on high alert regarding phishing attempts within their organizations and targeted
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The holidays are a wonderful time of year, but ‘Tis the Season’ now has a double meaning for both holiday festivities and malicious malware scamming. Malware has been a popular topic of discussion from a movie studio’s network being hacked,
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When your everyday life is all about information security, you start to see patterns that may not be so obvious to others. Each year, I take my best shot at describing these trends and making predictions for the coming year.
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Ransomware has come back into the spotlight, with a Krebs on Security report highlighting a recent attack targeting Linux Web servers—in addition to consumers and business users. Though ransomware itself isn’t anything new, this approach is unique in that after
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